February 19, 1927

Joyce Says 'Ulysses' Is Pirated Here

By WIRELESS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES

aris, Feb. 18.--John Galsworthy, Philip Gibbs, James Stephens, Sherwood Anderson and Paul
Morand are among those who have added their names to the protest which has been organized by
friends of James Joyce here against the action of Samuel Roth in publishing in the magazine Two
Worlds Monthly an expurgated version of Joyce's "Ulysses" without the author's permission and
without paying for reproduction rights.

Mr. Joyce said today that the first news he received that republication was intended in America
was through an advertisement. He had never been asked to give his authorization nor has he
received a cent of payment.

"It is a simple case of piracy," he said. "Roth seems to think that because the book as published
in Paris is banned from the United States mails I cannot take legal action there to recover
damages, but I am assured that I can, and I am bringing suit."

Joyce's work is only one of several which recently have been pirated in the United States, and
among the most recent victims was the French writer, Paul Morand, one of whose books is now
being reprinted without his authorization and without payment to him.

Of James Joyce's "Ulysses" it has been said that it can be understood only by a native of Dublin,
where the scene is laid. Some critics have attacked it as amazingly incoherent, while others have
praised it as the finest modern work of fiction. Joyce employs the "stream of consciousness"
method in the book and records everything that passes in the minds of certain characters during a
given period. The meticulousness with which he has pursued this method, including every
thought or desire of his character, no matter how gross or how unusual, has prevented its
publication in this country.

Joyce himself is a Dubliner, and one of the main characters of "Ulysses" is Stephen Daedalus, a
poetically minded Dublin youth who is also the protagonist of an earlier book, "A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man." Joyce's other works include "Dubliners," a book of short stories;
"Exiles," a play produced here several seasons ago, and "Chamber Music," a sheaf of poems.